BETA

22 Amendments of Gabriel MATO related to 2021/2168(INI)

Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
— having regard to Article 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union and to Articles 113, 11, 38, 120 and 191 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12
— having regard to the New Economics Foundation (NEF) report of September 2021 entitled ‘Who gets to fish in the EU? A 2021 update of how EU Member States allocate fishing opportunities’,deleted
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13
— having regard to the 2018 World Wildlife Fund report entitled ‘Evaluating Europe’s course to sustainable fisheries by 2020’,deleted
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14
— having regard to the report by Low Impact Fishers of Europe and Our Fish of 27 October 2021 entitled ‘How the EU can Transition to Low Environmental Impact, Low Carbon, Socially Just Fishing’,deleted
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the CFP includes the objectives of minimising the ‘negative impacts of fishing activities on the marine ecosystem’, of ‘achieving economic, social and employment benefits’, of contributing ‘to a fair standard of living for those who depend on fishing activities, bearing in mind coastal fisheries and socio-economic aspects’ and ‘to the availability of food supplies’ and of promoting ‘coastal fishing activities, taking into account socio- economic aspects’;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas Article 17 states that ‘Member States shall endeavour to provide incentives to fishing vessels deploying selective fishing gear or using fishing techniques with reduced environmental impact, such as reduced energy consumption or habitat damage’ which implies an obligation of means;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas, according the NEF report, only two countries, Denmark and Estonia, have public quota registers;deleted
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas the EU has failednot met the deadline to achieve good environmental status of EU marine waters by 2020, as set out in Article 1(1) of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, and to meet its legal deadline to end overfishing by 2020maximum sustainable yield (MSY) exploitation rate by 2020 for all fishing stocks; whereas, however, considerable progress has been made towards achieving both objectives: particularly for the MSY target, in the north-east Atlantic almost 100 % of the landings from EU-regulated stocks come from stocks fished at MSY levels and, in general, overfishing in the EU is constantly decreasing;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
M. whereas the World Wildlife Fund has evaluated the systems used for distributing fishing opportunities and considers that 69 % of coastal EU Member States (16 out of 23) have not yet implemented the criteria for ensuring a ‘just and sustainable allocation of fishing opportunities’;deleted
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
N. whereas the NEF notes that of the 22 coastal Member States, 17 use historical landing criteria, 13 use vessel size criteria (e.g. length, power and weight), 12 use social criteria (e.g. fisher age and type of employment contract), 12 use economic criteria (e.g. quota uptake, profitability and economic value), and 11 use environmental criteria (e.g. gear type and pingers); whereas in most cases, the social and environmental criteria do not have much weight in the final quota distribution;deleted
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
P. whereas sommost of the stocks are mainly targeted by different fleet types, but many osome of thersm are targeted by both small- scale and large-scale fleets;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Q. whereas the Low Impact Fishers of Europe and Our Fish report found that by implementing Article 17 of the CFP and allocating fishing quotas based on transparent and objective criteria of an environmental, social or economic nature, the EU can achieve a just transition to a low-carbon, low-impact fishing fleet; whereas, however, this objective must go hand in hand with the objective of “achieving economic, social and employment benefits, and of contributing to the availability of food supplies”;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that fish stocks are natural common goods that should not be considered commodities and should be managed in a way that guarantees the highest long-term benefits for society and minimises the impact on ecosystems;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that thsome Member States are not transparent and are not making public what criteria they apply when distributing fishing opportunities;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises that transparent allocation criteria is one of the parameters allowing to provides stability and legal certainty for operators;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the Member States have only marginally modified their fishing opportunity allocation methods since the reform of the CFP in 2013;deleted
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that very few Members States use criteria of an environmental, social or economic nature to distribute fishing opportunities and that, if used, they do not have much weight in the final distribution;deleted
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that the current allocation methods allow for a certain level of economic stability in the fishing sector, but may contribute to reinforcing trends such as economic concentration in the fishing sector and the difficulty of attracting new young fishers; considers, furthermore, that these methods do not provide incentives to fishers who implement fishing practices with a reduced environmental impact, do not provide fair opportunities to small- scale fishers and threaten their existence;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses that artisanal and traditional fisheries and their associations, such as "cofradias", are a fundamental feature of the local society, economy, culture and tradition in many coastal areas and islands across the EU and, therefore, they should receive special attention and treatment;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to incentivise fishers to use the most environmentally friendly fishing practices and to include climate and ecosystem considerations in their allocation processes (e.g. the impact on the seabed and the carbon footprint of each fisher or producer organisation), on the basis of a set of transparent criteria;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Emphasises that the allocation of fishing opportunities to operators with a lower environmental impact and a better history of compliance willcan contribute to restoring fish populations to a sustainable level and improve biodiversity protection;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission, in its upcoming action plan, to preserve fishery resources, protect marine ecosystems and include a fishing opportunity target to be distributed according to social, economic and environmental criteria and developed based on an impact assessment;
2022/02/02
Committee: PECH